Irimizu Limestone Cave

入水鍾乳洞Bコース_full Irimizu Limestone Cave,Fukushima,Japan

【福島県田村市滝根町　入水鍾乳洞（Irimizu Limestone Cave, Tamura-shi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan ）】
ノーカットで入水鍾乳洞Bコースの往復をフルに収めた記録です（GoPro使用）
水温10℃の水に足を浸し続け、頭を何度も打って、ロウソク片手に真っ暗な洞窟をひたすら進んでいく。苦行のようなこの行軍がめちゃめちゃ面白かったので、いずれCコースにもチャレンジしたいです。

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A stroll through Irimizu limestone cave (入水鍾乳洞) - Fukushima, Japan

This is a video I took inside Irimizu Cave in Tamura City, Fukushima during a day trip from Tochigi. The video is quite long as it includes most of the trek to the end and back.
Irimizu limestone cave is not very well know, but is a pretty neat little spot for those willing to try something a bit more adventurous. The cave is located about 15 minutes from beautiful Abukuma cave (a pretty well known cave in Japan).

As there isn't so much online about the cave, here's a bit of info from me.

There are three courses—A (beginner friendly), B (quite a bit harder), and C (about the same difficulty as B, but without hanging lights). The C course is also limited to 5 visitors at a time. We did the B course as the C course requires a guide who starts working at the end of April.
The A course is pretty short. To the end of the B course and back took us over an hour. The C course apparently takes about an hour and a half.

The cave has water flowing through it (like an underground river) so be prepared to get pretty wet. A couple of us got water shoes before hand which was a great idea. I'd also recommend a pair of shorts as it's not really possible to get out of crawling on your hands and knees. You can rent a rain poncho, shorts, and sandals from a little old lady near the cave. For next time, I'd probably bring some knee pads and a helmet as well. A flashlight (preferably a headlamp) is also a necessity.

This is definitely a cool place that I'd like to go visit again and I hope you will check it out too. Just please remember to respect nature (don't leave trash, carve things into the walls, etc). Have fun(k).

[写真]昭和57&60年 入水鍾乳洞 仙台平(福島) Irimizu Limestone Cave, Japan in 1982 and 1985

昭和57年11月と昭和60年11月に、福島県田村市の入水(いりみず)鍾乳洞、仙台平(せんだいひら)周辺などで撮影した写真です。
Photos of Irimizu Limestone Cave and around there in Tamura City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in November 1982 and 1985.

昭和57年11月　November 1982
0:08 菅谷駅から入水鍾乳洞への道
　　　On the way from Sugaya Station to Irimizu Limestone Cave
0:19 入水鍾乳洞
　　　Irimizu Limestone Cave
1:18 仙台平(カルスト台地)の方面へ
　　　Toward Sendai-hira, a karst plateau
2:15 鬼穴(鍾乳洞)の入り口
　　　The entrance of Oniana, a limestone cave
2:30 あぶくま洞(鍾乳洞)の入り口付近
　　　Around the entrance of Abukuma-dō, a limestone cave
2:59 小野新町駅 （小野町）
　　　Ono-niimachi Station in Ono Town

昭和60年11月　November 1985
3:10 入水鍾乳洞
　　　Irimizu Limestone Cave

地図 Map

　　入水鍾乳洞 Irimizu Limestone Cave

　　仙台平 Sendai-hira

　　あぶくま洞 Abukuma-dō

　　小野新町駅 Ono-niimachi Station

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Abukuma Cave | Caving or Ghost Hunting?

Abukuma-do (阿武隈洞 - Abukuma Cave) is a limestone cave located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The cave was discovered on August 15, 1969, northeast of the city of Tamura and was originally named Kamayama Shonyu-do (釜山鍾乳洞). It was designated a natural heritage of the town on February 7, 1971, and renamed Abukuma-do on June 1, 1973.Visitors can traverse a 600-metre-long path inside the cave as well as a 120-metre-long exploration course to view the stalactites and stalagmites. Each stalactite has taken more than eighty million years to form. Beyond the public areas lie about 2,500 metres of cave that are not open to the public. Nearby Abukuma Cave is the smaller Irimizu Shonyu-do (入水鍾乳洞 - Irimizu Limestone Cave), discovered in 1927. Irimizu Limestone Cave was designated a National Natural Treasure on December 28, 1934.The temperature inside Abukuma-do is around 15 °C and the humidity is above 90%.
Abubukuma-dong was discovered in September 1969 from the present Busan quarry site in an area called Abukuma Highlands (阿武隈高地), or Harachitai highlands(原地帯), in the middle of a plateau of geologic formation of irregular limestone deposits, on the west side slope of Mt. Otakine. Since ancient times mining for marble and limestone has been popular in that area. Limestone was also discovered at Abukuma-do. At the year of Abukuma-do's discovery mining in that area was suspended, and a limestone outcrop remains to this day near it's parking lot.

The initial discovery of an entrance to the cave is now near the exit of the modern day tourist destination. The cave itself consists of a 12m deep hole, a tunnel running 60m north, and a tunnel running 15m southwest. In March 1970 the Japanese university 's expedition team explored the inside of the cave, and found a main cave ahead of the air hole in the northern end that was regarded as the end point until then. In 1973, four years after the discovery, the inside of the cave was developed for observation and it was opened to the public.

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20090814 入水鍾乳洞Bコースその2（9分）

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鍾乳洞探検をしてきた、整備された有料鍾乳洞だがその険しさ・厳しさは初めての体験でした、Bコース以上はびしょぬれになります。水温14度(＞_＜)、だんだん慣れてきます。掛かった時間は1時間くらいか。
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